Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-11-12

There is no longer any concrament,
among the mugWumps, of their dissatis-
faction with the course of President
Cleveland. They once affected
To believe him a paragon of
all that was strong and noble in public
man lie was the ideal man of the peo-
Pile, the great American Nol0n, and the re-
pository of about all the honor that was
afoat In official life They sang his praises
with intense rapture. The laudatory ad-
jectives of the English vocabulary were
exhausted long before the heatitudes to
which this mugWump worship was carried,
were reached. How has the mighty fallen,
Time has torn the tlimsy veil from this
mugwump Idol, aud shown It To he very
ordinary quality of clay, with the face of a
ward politician They have found his
civil service professions to have been
by-word and u snarc--a trmpurizing
eNpedicnt to beguilc the mugwump vote
into the Bourbon camp. To-day the
saddcst birds IN the whole political forest
are these same mugWumps. II was a
terrible blow to them when they learned
that the executive of this great nation had
actually contributed S2OOO to the large
corruption fund which was collected for
the defeat of Governor Foraker in Ohio.
They were completely diSrnchantcd. hoy
ever. when having endorsed Nicoll most
cordially for district attorney in New
York, the President whom they made.
hastcned to drawa sharp line between him
self and them by pledging his own sup
port for Fellows, the candidate of the
hoodlers and spoilsmen and contributing
To the fund for pushing his campaign
This action has clearly demonstrated 10
the mugwumps all over the country that
partisan success Is dearcr To Mr.. Cleveland
just now than the cause of good govern
ment, An open letter from Carl Schurz.
the great crown prince of mugwumps,
shows how they view this action of Presi-
dent Cleveland. Mr.. Schurz writes:
What malignant enemy of President
Cleveland was 1t that induced Mr. Cooper to
exfort from him that most
unfortunate letter iniermcddlng in
New York city politics on the
side of the typical dead beat as candidate
for an office which is the guardian OF the
public honorf II the President had had
true friend in your councils that friend would
have strained every nerve to confirm his dis
inclination To descend from the high dignity
of his office that friend would not have
failed 20 remind him of 1852. when the med
ding of the national administration with New
York State politics resulted in the most
sweeping opposition victory ON record; that
friend would have struggled to the bitter end
against the publication of the Presidents lct-
ter after the new revelations concerning Mr..
Fellows career. in ignorance of which,
have no doubt. that letter was written, and,
after learning which. | trust he would wish it
never had been written.
shall say nothing in extenuation of the
fact that the President permitted himself to
be SO misused. But certain il is that the
bltterest enemies of the President and of the
democratic party could not have dealt them
more vicious blow. For more than thirty
years | have been an attentive observer of
political events, and never. never have |
witnessed more wanton rccklessness of party
leaders, sacrificing the interests and good
name of a great municipality. the character
OF National Administration, as well as the
interests of their party and cause, to their
laundering folly OF their small selhshness.